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Originally Posted by RPS69

Still, american .50s are really a bad weapon to down B17s!

It is not the weapon of choice - but one good, concentrated burst to vulnerable areas (B-17:fuel tanks, engines, pilot(s))-does still hurt or kill - even fat cars.

Originally Posted by gaunt1

soviet 12.7 is underpowered currently.

My feeling is different, if you have a stable gunnery platform, the UB is IMHO on par with other HMGs - you can make quite a mess of German planes with only one UB the usually give you in a YAK. Yak3 has two UB, even better, MiG-3 too - and there they suck balls, and I think it is because MiG-3 is so unstable and the white tracers are not very useful for correcting aim, too.